Quotes by Women Authors

Your revolution will not happen between these thighs.

Sarah Jones (stage actress)

Husbands and wives quarrel a lot more than anyone thinks, and it's oftener about little things than big ones.

Patricia Wentworth

Cam's wings were so bright they were almost blinding as they pulsed. "Holy Hell," Callie whispered, blinking."More or less," Arriane said

Let bygones be bygones because everybody knew that forgiveness was divine.

Suspense is torture... but delightful--or there'd be no gambling in the world.

Dignity is like morality, Mirabilis barked. Too much is as bad as too little.

Unconsciously we grow to look upon the sick as people of another world.

We're all going to die sometime, so you might as well die pushing the odds for something that matters.

The last cobwebs
of fog in the
black firtrees are flakes
of white ash in the world's hearth.

Denise Levertov

I see what grief does, how it strips you bare, shows you all the things you don't want to know. That loss doesn't end, that there isn't a moment where you are done, when you can neatly put it away and move on.

Elizabeth Scott (author)

To die for one's great ideas is glorious — and easy. The horror is to outlive them. That is our worst capability.

John Oliver Hobbes

Love without friendship is like a kite, aloft only when the winds are favorable. Friendship is what gives love its wings.

The Goddess teaches us that every ending is also a beginning. May there be rebirth from this death.

Reason is necessarily the language of moral, political, and scientific argument: not because reason is holy or on some elevated plane, but because it isn't; because it is accessible to all humans; because, as well as working, it can be seen to work.

A garden is a human creation. It has to be thought of first, wished into being, planned for like a child.

Amy Stewart (writer)

Because its myriad glimmering plumes Like a great army's stir and wave; Because its golden billows blooms, The poor man's barren walks to lave: Because its sun-shaped blossoms show How souls receive the light of God, And unto earth give back that glow I thank him for the Goldenrod.

As in so many cases of sexual abuse within the family, it is much more complicated than had it been done by a stranger.

Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. When you feed yourself what your body needs when it needs it, that's love. So give your bod some TLC and sit down and enjoy a good, substantial breakfast.

Not only is your story worth telling, but it can be told in words so painstakingly eloquent that it becomes a song.

God made no mistakes when He created you. You were uniquely designed for success in your purpose.

But I am a-eppisodin' and a-eppisodin' to a length and depth almost onprecedented and onheard of - and to resoom and go on.

Marietta Holley

The soul is a millstone, an albatross, it meddles in everything. It creates ties to torture us.

Marie Vieux Chauvet

I became an archaeologist because I wanted to drive around in a big Landrover; smoking, cursing and finding treasure.

Nobody hopped into a wardrobe to find Narnia; they hopped in, thinking it was just a wardrobe. They didn't climb up the Faraway Tree, knowing it was a Faraway Tree; they thought it was just a really big tree. Harry Potter thought he was a normal boy; Mary Poppins was supposed to be a regular nanny. It's the first and only rule. Magic comes when you're not looking for it

The easy road is always under construction,so have an alternate route planned.